The Magic Mirror: Myth's Abiding Power (S U N Y Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences) - Couverture souple

Baeten, Elizabeth M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791430928 ISBN 13 : 9780791430927

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

Analyzes the theories of myth of Cassirer, Barthes, Eliade, and Hillman and offers an alternative original account of myth-making as an essential strand of cultural production.

In this book, Elizabeth M. Baeten analyzes the theories of myth propounded by Cassirer, Barthes, Eliade, and Hillman and juxtaposes the insights of these very different perspectives to form a coherent account of myth. She then shows that these theories perform the same function the authors ascribe to myth itself. Moreover, not only do the theories of myth function mythically; the myth embedded in each theory is the same: the telos of human existence is absolute freedom, an unbounded power to constitute the subjective and objective features of existence. The correlate of this myth of absolute creative freedom, Baeten argues, is that the truly human must transcend natural determinations. Baeten understands this to be a dangerous myth and offers an alternative original account of myth-making as an essential strand of cultural production demarcating the human process within the setting of broader natural processes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth M. Baeten is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Emerson College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791430928
• ISBN 13: 9780791430927
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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